{"id":327592,"date":"2015-09-29T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/gen-verde-in-hungary-on-the-other-side\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:01:28","slug":"gen-verde-in-hungary-on-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/gen-verde-in-hungary-on-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Verde in Hungary, On the Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20150928GenVerdeSzeged1\"\u201cStart Now!\u201d <\/strong>That is, start here and now, to build authentic relationships and to generate trust. It is an invitation worth its weight in gold, you might say, and it was the title Gen Verde<\/a> chose for the concert\/workshop brought to the stage of the T\u00e1gas T\u00e9r Festival, on September 25th<\/sup> in Szeged, Hungary. The protagonists in these eight workshops, along with the artists, were 120 teens from two high schools, one of which is a professional institute frequented by many students who have difficult family situations. \u201cT\u00e1gas T\u00e9r, which literally means, \u2018open space,\u2019\u201d<\/strong> explains one of the organizers, \u201cis in fact a big ecumenical meeting which exposes the network of hundreds of activities in the world for civic solidarity. Szeged is 15 km from the Hungarian border with Serbia, and therefore, many people were present at the concert who experience the passage of thousands of immigrants daily, with the sea of questions and sorrow that comes along with it. <\/strong> \"20150928GenVerdeSzeged2\"\u201cOn the Other Side\u201d: <\/strong>During the concert, many songs were heard from \u201cOn the Other Side<\/a>,\u201d the latest album by Gen Verde, released less than a month ago. But what is \u201cthe other side\u201d? is a spontaneous question many ask themselves. \u201cIt\u2019s the person I have in front of me, the person who thinks differently than I; the person I don\u2019t admire or even like,\u201d explains Adriana Garcia, the group\u2019s bass player from Mexico. A powerful show, engaging and at the same time capable of questioning<\/strong> positions, opinions and lifestyles as someone has said. Because what emerges from the music and the lyrics is the certainty that the solution to a broken world, divided by walls, comes from understanding the richness inherent in diversity. <\/strong> Among the eleven songs on the album <\/strong>there is the story of the difficult progress of an entire people in the piece \u201cVoz de la Verdad,\u201d about the Salvadorian bishop, Oscar Romero<\/a>, or the very current and relevant song about the division of the two Koreas, built on K-pop melodies, almost as if to say that even among young Koreans the wound has not yet healed. \u201cThey are stories that do not permit us to fall into indifference,\u201d comments one girl, \u201cor to forget our brothers and sisters from whom we are separated by a border. We have felt strongly called even to give our lives for justice.\u201d \u201cNeedless to say, the most powerful moment of the concert was the song \u201cChi piange per te,\u201d (\u201cWho cries for you\u201d) a sweet lullaby dedicated to a baby girl entombed in the waters of the Sicilian Canal, perhaps because of the situation our country is living now with the immigration issue<\/a>,\u201d confided a friend who works with the media. And a Pastor of the Reformed Church,<\/strong> G\u00e1bor Czag\u00e1ny<\/strong>, one of the organizers of the Festival, stated: \u201cWhat struck me the most were the faces of the young people from the schools that took part in the workshops. There was joy, participation, commitment. You could intuit the weight of the experience they had had: seven days that left their mark. Now it\u2019s up to us to keep all this from getting lost or going to waste.\u201d \"20150928GenVerdeSzeged3\"Young people offer hope for unity<\/strong>\u2014Alessandra Pasquale, actress and singer in Gen Verde, is eager to clarify: \u201cOur job is not to go on stage, sing, show off and then depart: we cannot exclude the building of authentic relationships with people, or exclude feeling what the people who come to our concerts experience, in what waters the teens with whom we do the workshops navigate.\u201d It is for this reason that the video-interviews of the young participants of the workshops are projected before the beginning of the concert at Szeged, and were an integral part of the show, because these young people had in fact helped build it. Here are a few words from the teens: \u201cThe project, \u2018Start Now!\u2019 opened my eyes: it taught me not to judge foreigners. And this takes work: it takes tenacity and trust.\u201d \u201cI learned how we should pay attention<\/strong> to one another.\u201d \u201cI understood the importance of keeping a community together and that to be a family, humanity needs the collaboration of each one of us.\u201d \u201cI am very happy that my school participated in the project, \u201cStart Now!\u201d with the other school. In the beginning we didn\u2019t know each other; it took time, but then we earned each other\u2019s trust and now I can say that we move as a single person, we are absolutely happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands came to Szeged from various cities in Hungary and from nearby Serbia and Romania on September 25th, for Gen Verde\u2019s single appointment in the Hungarian country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}